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Cap One’s Byford: DIB Change Requires Difficult Conversations

Kate Byford, head of agency finance for Capital One, was one of the speakers at Commercial Observer’s recent Diversity & Inclusion Forum. She spoke to Commercial Observer’s Partner Insights team...

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Return-to-Office Plans: When Companies Are Planning to Go Back

It’s the grand parlor game of the commercial real estate industry and the wider business world: Which companies are going back to the office and when? Below is a running tab, in alphabetical order, of...

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Cushman & Wakefield Acquires 40% Stake in Greystone’s Agency Lending Business

Global brokerage powerhouse Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has acquired a 40 percent interest in leading multifamily financier Greystone’s agency lending and servicing business, vaulting them into...

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What CRE Lenders Wish They Knew in March 2020

When the pandemic forced shutdowns in March 2020, it left commercial real estate finance professionals in limbo as they grappled with how a global health crisis would alter their industry going...

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Lenders Home In on Nashville’s Appeal as a Key Secondary Growth Market

Secondary markets have become the center of attention for many commercial property lenders and investors in the aftermath of the pandemic. Economic dynamics, migration patterns and investment return...

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US Bank Hires Capital One’s Sadhvi Subramanian to Lead East Region Lending

U.S. Bank has added Sadhvi Subramanian from Capital One to lead commercial real estate for the bank’s East region, the company announced Monday. Subramanian arrives at U.S Bank after a 20-year stint at...

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Crypto Data Firm Chainalysis Expands With 78K-SF Direct Deal in Flatiron

Chainalysis — a cryptocurrency data and transaction company — inked a deal to lease 77,608 square feet at 114 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District that it had been subleasing, Commercial Observer has...

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Boston Financial Investment Management Appoints Noreen Short as Chief Credit...

Boston Financial Investment Management announced that the company’s chief credit officer, Jim Dailey, will be retiring from the firm in June. Noreen Short, who joined Boston Financial last week as...

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MBA CREF 22: Affordable Housing Solutions Needed in CRE

With only so many low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC) to go around, more innovative solutions will be necessary to truly make a dent in combating the nation’s affordable housing challenges.  That...

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GFP Real Estate Seals $23M Refi for TriBeCa Building

Having the right tenants is paying off in particularly big ways for some firms. GFP Real Estate is refinancing 71 Thomas Street in TriBeCa with a $23.3 million loan from Capital One in an attempt to...

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How Debt Funds and NBFIs Help Capital One Grow Its Customer Base

While one might not expect a major bank to work closely with non-bank financial institutions (NBFI), Capital One sees their value in helping to provide further advantages to its commercial real estate...

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Challenging Times Call for More Customized CRE Financing Options

With disruption and change taking place across the commercial real estate lending environment, sponsors find that their needs are evolving with the times. The lenders who achieve success through the...

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How Better Data Resources Lead to Greater Opportunities in CRE Lending

The recent explosion of data resources and information about markets and customers has changed how companies do business, especially within commercial real estate. “Real estate has been a pretty...

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Capital One Closes $55M Freddie Mac Loan on Maryland Multifamily Asset

A joint venture between Insight Property Group, AHC and Federal Capital Partners has secured a $55 million floating-rate Freddie Mac loan for the acquisition of Camden Largo Town Center Apartments, a...

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Downtown Brooklyn Multifamily Asset Trades for $142M

The Dermot Company in partnership with USAA Real Estate and PGGM has purchased a two-building luxury apartment asset with ground-floor retail space in Downtown Brooklyn five and half years after it was...

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Jonathan Rose Cos. Adds More Senior Housing in SoCal

Jonathan Rose Companies is growing its senior housing portfolio in Southern California with another renovation plan. The investment firm paid $41.25 million for the 180-unit Belage Manor senior...

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San Diego Life Sciences Campus Secures $165M Refi

Genesis Science Center, a four-building life sciences campus in San Diego’s Sorrento Mesa market, has secured a $165 million refinancing. Phase 3 Real Estate Partners and Bain Capital are the borrowers...

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Capital One Moves to Direct Deal for Part of 130K-SF 11 West 19th Street Offices

Capital One isn’t taking a page from other firms’ playbooks and cutting office space. Instead, hot off the heels of expanding by 60,000 square feet at 114 Fifth Avenue, the bank moved to a long-term...

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Sunday Summary: Put on a Happy Face!

Hey, gloomy Gus, turn that frown upside down! Because for all of the caterwauling about the state of the market, the raw numbers were a lot better in the first half of the year than they were in the...

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Capital One, NYCB Lend $323M on New England Apartments Portfolio 

Eagle Rock Properties has inked a $323 million debt package for the acquisition of five multifamily properties in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Commercial Observer has learned. Capital One and New...

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